Wednesday, May 6, 2015 | Community Ministry
Source: The New Orleans Advocate — New Orleans, Louisiana Reflecting a broad-based community response to family homelessness, pastors and members of more than 18 St. Tammany churches recently gathered to dedicate the Family Promise of St. Tammany...
Tuesday, May 5, 2015 | Community Ministry
Source: NOLA.com On Friday, April 17, Christ Episcopal Church in Slidell opened the newest “Little Free Library” in St. Tammany Parish. According to LittleFreeLibrary.org, “It’s a ‘take a book, return a book’ gathering place where...
Wednesday, April 29, 2015 | Community Ministry
Source: NOLA.com A new, non-profit organization in St. Tammany Parish has opened a day center and partnered with numerous churches to provide homeless families nutritious meals and a warm, safe place to sleep. Family Promise of St. Tammany will host its first...
Tuesday, April 28, 2015 | Community Ministry, Out and About in EDoLA
[srizonfbalbum id=10] Article and photographs by Karen Mackey, Communications Coordinator, Episcopal Diocese of Louisiana- On April 26, gaily decorated boats with colorful flags and horns blaring paraded along the muddy waters of Bayou Dularge in Louisiana for the...
Thursday, April 23, 2015 | Community Ministry
by The Rev. Drew Rollins, Chaplain, St. Alban’s Chapel Many thanks to everyone who so faithfully supports our “Lunch with C. S. Lewis” ministry here at St. Alban’s Chapel on the campus of LSU. We closed out our spring semester series...
Thursday, April 23, 2015 | Community Ministry, Diocesan News
On April 21, the Gaudet Committee announced the awarding of seven community grants. The Gaudet Community Grant provides funding for not-for-profit agencies that create, manage, and expand educational opportunities for African American children within the...
Wednesday, April 22, 2015 | Community Ministry
Source: NOLA.com …Broadmoor had remained diverse — many say it is a microcosm of New Orleans’ broader social, economic and racial makeup. But it also had its ills. Between the 1980s and the early 2000s, many of the people who could afford to leave...
Friday, April 17, 2015 | Community Ministry
Family Promise of St. Tammany Opens Day Center at Christ Church’s Wheeler House Imagine being homeless while trying to search for a job, a place to receive mail, a place to shower, a safe place to tend your young child. It is hard if not impossible. One...
Friday, April 17, 2015 | Community Ministry
Source: The Slidell Independent – SLIDELL – Over two years of work to create a program that can provide truly homeless St. Tammany families with a place to stay, and rebuild their lives, is on the verge of beginning at over a dozen churches around the parish....
Tuesday, March 10, 2015 | Community Ministry
Purpose The Episcopal Diocese of Louisiana through the Gaudet Scholarship Program awards scholarships to advance the education of black African American students by providing need-based partial scholarships for attending primary and secondary schools that offer...
Thursday, March 5, 2015 | Community Ministry
Grant recipients of the 2014 Community Mission Appeal were announced on February 27, 2015 during the 178th Annual Convention. Thank you to everyone who gave to the Community Mission Appeal- formerly known as the Bishop’s Annual Mission Appeal. The Community...
Thursday, February 19, 2015 | Community Ministry
Source: The Advocate — Baton Rouge, Louisiana ST. FRANCISVILLE — They sang, they danced, but most of all they inspired with their message of faith, love and hope. The Watoto Children’s Choir performed their “Oh, What Love” production Feb. 13 at the West Feliciana...
Sunday, February 15, 2015 | Community Ministry
Source: Gardening project benefits Episcopal | Southside | The Advocate — Baton Rouge, Louisiana Growing lettuce is harder than Eden Guirard realized, the Episcopal fifth-grader said Feb. 5, standing in front of lush, green heads of varying sizes growing in a...
Sunday, January 18, 2015 | Community Ministry, Diocesan News, Out and About in EDoLA
The Second Annual Service of Commitment to Racial Healing, Justice, and Reconciliation was held on Saturday, January 17 at Christ Church Cathedral. The service of Morning Prayer was sponsored by the Diocesan Commission on Racial Reconciliation. The sermon was given...
Thursday, January 15, 2015 | Community Ministry, Out and About in EDoLA
[Source: The New Orleans Advocate — New Orleans, Louisiana] An Interfaith Prayer Service for the New Orleans homeless was held Dec. 14 at St. Joseph Church on Tulane Avenue in New Orleans. Religious leaders of many faiths participated by reading passages from...
